Phillip H. McMath Post Publication Book Award-Genre Unlimited

The Phillip H. McMath Post Publication Book Award is open for nominations between February 1 and October 15, 2018 (postmark deadline). We encourage you to read our guidelines below before submitting. The mission of the Phillip H. McMath Book Award is to:

Any publisher, author, agent or any legal representative or an author may enter full-length books published in the 2017 calendar year. Submissions may be made in ANY GENRE. Submissions may NOT be self-published. Entering the title indicates the author’s willingness to attend and give a reading at the UCA Arkatext Literary Festival spring 2019. The winner will receive a $500 honorarium and a travel stipend to the festival. If the author is unable to attend the literary festival, the award will not be granted to the author and another recipient will be chosen.

The following people are ineligible for the award: students at the University of Central Arkansas, alumni of the University of Central Arkansas, authors who have had books published by publishing houses that are currently operated by UCA MFA faculty or who operate presses that have published current MFA faculty, faculty who have taught at the University of Central Arkansas within the previous five years, employees of the state of Arkansas, and spouses, partners, relatives, or recent former students(within the past five years) of current faculty in the Department of Writing at the University of Central Arkansas.

Additional Requirements:

All work must be submitted in English.

Each book must be a self-contained entity.

No anthologies, collaborations, however, are acceptable. Honorariums will then be split evenly.

Agents and publishers who submit on behalf of the author, please notify the writer that their work is under consideration for the award.

To enter:

Send a copy of the book, along with a check for $25 (make check’s payable to UCA Foundation) and a cover sheet with the following information: